Thanks. Thanks for share your knowledge. God Bless you.

A very nice demonstration and a professional tutorial. Thanks for this and I hope to see more of this

Heli

Hi. sir i am franklin, that tutorials are good. my ID samfranklinv@143.gmail.com

I kinda love you!
After doing a lot of your amazing tutorials, i am gonna buy some of the dvd's as wel!

Greets from the netherlands

Hi.
I know AK use high resulution images, I use 1000x500 px earth images which I got fra google maps and cropped out in photoshop. I am having issues when I set the scale to 100% and scrub the scale slider, it will only show until image 4 then it goes backward and zooms in?? Does anyone knows why?? I am trying to combine this earth zoom with the blu planet tutorial, I want to make a zoom in effect. Please advice anyone, cause i really want to make this since I spent a lot of time on geting the correct images.
Thanks for very learningfull tutorials!!!

fixed the parenting problem. instead of parenting all to layer 1, ignore this layer and parent to layer 2.
It seems that when your layer 1 get gets scaled very close to 0,0001% (or something like that) it resets to 0% so all you other layers get 'confused' and won't show.

Hope this works for others.

great tutorial, but i'm having the same problem with parenting all to layer 1 : only the first layer is visible.
I managed to create this strange behaviour with the original project but can't figure out what's wrong in cs4.

Andrew, great tutorial, to everyone else asking where to get images, a few things: Google Earth is best because you can go to any level you want to take snapshots. You really should only use a city or other well documented place. Your house might not cut it since satellites don't take as many pics of your house as they do cities. So if you're doing this for a client, you might want to mention that. Also, notice these images come from PhotoShop, they've been touched up, you should do the same, if you have a lake that looks funky, clone-stamp it, if you have those hard edges on things, blur them out, stuff like that, no real 'easy fix' with this tutorial... Again, awesome job Andrew, you're an inspiration to us all. Oh, and sorry for my bad engrish, I failed that class in High School ;)

Hello andrew , awesome tut, greetings from portugal.
I'm having the same scaling issue as some other people here. So I parent everything sequencial, and after that point, remove all the parents in layers, I select layer all layers except layer 1 and parent all to layer 1, then the scale from the last one stays on 100% and layer 1 goes back to 0%. Then when I scale up layer 1 to 100% I only see layer 1.
What i'm doing wrong.
Thanks for the amazing tuts. I'm doing a short-movie, and I learn so much with you. If you come to portugal let me know.

Hi. Thanks for all that tutorials you made, they are so usefull =^_^=

I got a problem with that tutorial because when i try to animate it, instead of making a 10 seconds animation, it animates all in one second (even though in the time line shows that its a 10 second animation) and it only allows me to work like if it was project of 10 frames. I tried to do all i know, but i didn't get nothing.

Sorry about my english if there are some mistakes. I'm spanish and its too late here, i'm almost falling asleep xD

Thanks for all

8^), i need more tutorials!!!!

Hey Andrew,

just want to say - "you are the MAN! and your tutorials are the SH*T!" You've taught me very much.

I realize you're a busy guy, and I also realize that I'm not the only one to ask this question, but WHERE did you get your images for this? I can't figure it out..... any help would be greatly appreciated!

it can't be google maps or earth because your images look way better.....

Thanks!

Al

Hi Andrew. Where did you get the pictures from? Are they just Google Earth cut and pasted into photoshop?

Great tut. and I love your sense of humor.

Hello and Great PAGE really great page man.
I was searching for something like this for a long long time and as you can see you've posted this tutorial 2007 and we are know at 2010 wow this is a long time. making my story short I NEED HELP PLEASE.

When I Grab all the files and then select layer to none and then select the number 1 file and get the scale up to 100 it does go to 100 but not like the video tutorial you have 100%, 100%. But I have 100%, 601.7% and does some funny things to the pictures and moves them around why? what I'm I doing wrong? please help me this is great to learn.

By the way one again KEEP UP THE AMAZING WORK WOULD ALL THIS WORK ON ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS CS4 PROFESSIONAL EDITION? BECAUSE I SEE YOU HAVE USED ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS VERSION 7.01 PROFESSIONAL EDITION.

I can not write well in English
but I write only to congratulate
for your work is excellent

Gratitude for all the tutorials. Here is my edition (done as a party invitation):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUn6CV7lVg0

amazing what else could be said!

www.altafk.com

I am a software developer and accidentally landed to this site, but man what a wonderful tutorial i have...awesome. I am a graphic desgining and animation lover and i really like the efforts. KUDOS guys keep doing good job

Hi, just watched the earthzoom tutorial. great work. One question though, where did you get the images to work on? Was it google maps (satellite) or what?

Thanks

Connor (N.Ireland)

really great tutorial, just the thing I needed for my project!

great tutorial man...
thank you andrew,...you are the best...

Thank you Andrew.

well you are good, i really like that. A year ago i had the same kind of animation project, but after watching the tutorial i feel that this is the more right way to do this kind of animation.
i want to say thank you again

SUch a Beatiful Animation ..... I LOve Andre Kramer

I saw this on some science thing except it was zooming in on a cement block and it zoomed in 2,000,000 times. you could see the silicon atoms! it was so cool!

your are the best andrew :) yesssss

Thank u so much

Sukar Madrid
Saudi Arabia

Hello,

A lot of people asked about the pictures and how to get them....

Usually you can buy them. My Team an me are creating such Pictures for commercial use.
You can ask the local Gouvernement they should have such pictures.

alex

Muchas gracias

THANK YOU!!

Thank's to Videocopilot
this very good

I ran into a problem 27 seconds into the video. I cant find a weather balloon or a hot air baloon anywere! Where can I find something like this? Im not someone who can spend much as im only 15.

where do u get pictures of the world like that

Thanks for this great tutorial !!!

HOLA Andrew, you are so nice and your tutorial is so great. Thanks. I use it to do a film you will see sooner in my web page about Namibia, South Africa, and Botwana.

Meanwhile, why don´t you do a tutorial about a progressive route or itinerary over a moving map?.

Thanks.
Alex

Thanks for the awesome tutorial Andrew, much appreciated!

Some problems I ran into (and seen others who posted here run in to) are:
Scaling to %0.0005 will sometimes show the composition background.
By playing around a bit with the scaling I could get it to be exactly the way I wanted it, which is the most zoomed out picture. I ended up putting it at 0.0015 I think.

I've also seen people who had problems with the exponential scale being greyed out, I had this too but after linking the layer up (which was explained a step later in the tutorial, the second time you use it) it suddenly worked again..

Hope this helps someone :)

hey, great tutorial, but I can´t find good photos. Google Maps doesn´t work cause the photos never fit at all and it get´s blurred.
Google earth hasn´t got enough details. Can you please gelp me (photos captured with windows [capture button] and sharpend with Gimp).
Sorry for my bad english i´m German.

Thank you for these great Tutorials!

wow Andrew u rock bro, ur tutorials are so crystal clear and to the point. I am a beginner and I am so ahead of the learning curve due to ur teachings great job to u and all the guys that are behind the scenes at Video Copilot.!!!!!

This is the best tutorial ,Thx

Hey, I have a problem. When after the first part, when parent all layers to layer 1 and scale it to %0.0005 i see my composition background instead of world view. I realised that when I change the scale of layer 1, layer 8's scale doesn't change. What should I do?

Thank you the tutorials ! Thank youvery much !
I's in Thailand.

Thanks a lot for all your great tutorials !
Thank you very much !
Thailand

that string joke got me..i thought u really meant it so i went outside i paused it before u continued then just thought to myself did Andrew really do this took me 1 hour to figure this out. Nice vid!

increible....gracias a vos conozco AF !!! segui asi que se valora mucho el aporte!.
desde argentina!

Great tutorial - I used this technique as part of a website intro for Coke: http://www.vimeo.com/6973731 (hope I did it justice - I think it's cool!)

hi this is nice and cool effect. But where i can found this images can any body tell me

If you've ever seen the tv show The Big Bang Theory this exact effect was used almost identically on season 3 episode 5 at the very end of the show and I have a strong hunch it was created using this this tutorial.

I swear am half way about crying here... this lining up is definately NOT as easy as you make it look man.. Am so fustrated i feel like blowing up. Andrew, do me a favour, use me instead of Sam. i think i need all that torture :P
by the way, love ya Sam.. Your awesome too.. Feel like releasing my fustration just typing alot but.. not such a good idea.. my coffee even got cold trying to concentrate too much.. But, il just say your just amazing.. wish i could ask you questions.. wait, rather, interview you haha. Alright i'l leave now

nice n clear tutorial

Andrew,
Thanks for the tutorial. I very much enjoyed and learned from it.

I used this technique to my job,it is very easily
thank u Andrew

I love your tutorials learning alot from you!
Im 17 and im a intermediate user at this program love it!got years of practice 2 come

A quick thing i did:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzgPWAAuye8

guys/ its an awesome tutorial but how the flip do you scale down the images//
i'm having trouble. i've tried everything..
can anyone help me please//

ciao
richie..

wow! how'd u get to visualize those things?! u must have great photographic skills...and to think you can link it perfectly to after effects. that's just so whoa! thanks andrew...-college student^^

Great tutorial andrew! Keep it up!

If anyone's bored out there plz let me know what u think of my earth zoom to australia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2oeG9rpy-A

i love digital

Hey. Everyone keeps asking: "Where do you get the images from?"
As for me I don't know where he got the high resolution images from. What I use is google earth for the in close pictures and NASA World Wind for the farther away pivtures(State and country). I use Wisdom-Soft ScreenHunter 5.0 Pro to capture the picture because after you can crop out anything you dont like. On google Earth it has all the writing at the bottom which you can crop out and on NASA World Wing it has the tool bar. Both have the top window and bottom window. Just use sreen hunter. Crop and your done. I don't know about the high res screens though
People asking about maps can also try http://flashearth.com
Hey guys! the images: from google maps (not google earth!!!)

how did you get the sound FX???

wow :O

you are the best video maker!

nice n1!

WoooooooooW!!!!! Awesome. I love it. Love your work. Thanks.

You a bad man...In another life you would have been a rasta...thanks and praise to jah for the kramer.

it's spectacular
it's perfect
it's beautifull
it's very very great
sorry for mi english i'm spanish

You're the man, Andrew!

Great tutorial as usual Andrew, I guess you are always pressed for time doing 100's of these tutorials but I would go one step further and go through each layers and fade out them out completely as they get too small to be noticed. that way you wont notice colour difference when they contrast like in the last 2 shots.

thanks for your tuts mate, you got me interested in after effects. Something I never thought much of before.

Andrew, earth zoom video tutorial is breaking down when you reach close to 8 min of video. You should check this out!

Great Video I love all the effects ;)

Amazing tut. it was so fun to do :)

People i used Google earth to get high res images :)

Awesome project, but enabling the motion blur makes it much nicer.

Fantastic tut!
Does anyone know were to get the high res images from ?

Hey Andrew, awsome turotial,
I'm attemping to recreate this zoom from my part of the world, I was wondering where you get the high res pic from?

amazzzzzzzinggggggggggggggg is also small word for your tutorial..........!!Keep it up Andrew...

love it man bravoo

The best Tut ever seen 10/10

its really superb and usefull.
thanks a lot.

Anyone can tell me where can i get images of a diferent place in the world? I've tryed with Google earth and it works for closer ones but when i zoom out it looks pretty ugly...

what can i do?

Hi I am desperately looking for a slow, long zoom out video from the earth into the far reaches of space. Can ANYONE help me with this?

Andrew Thanks for that great tutorial god bless you
where are those maps from ??? Google Earth ??? I realy like some maps of MY city

nice sir one more time u inspired me to do something...u r geat...plz check the below link to see what I have done using u r tips on Google earth
plz do reply
by

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0xHzEjSGs

you're the best I'd like to be like you

Love the tutorials. Congrats on the new addition.
Also curious where one would find photos of this high a resolution?
Also, what would be the procedure of reversing the effect where you come from space and zoom into a street... but then, add in a motion shot of a person looking up, as if to start a story of such a person? Which is what I'm now wanting to do. I'm sure I've actually seen this somewhere actually?

hey guys. i love the tut. worked great. the only problem i ran into was that i want the planet image at the end to be centered in the frame. so the beginning is centered at my house but then when we are in space looking at the earth i want the planet centered. any ideas?

nicely done man

Cara Muito Bom!!!!
vcs tiram Onda Mesmo!

andrew yoo ma... ^_^

damn nice tutorials! xD

Awesome Project

Very Nice work!!
Thank you Andrew!!

Hello there,

first of all, I want to apologize for my bad English.

Last week, I was watching TV and during the advertising I was zapping around. I found sth kinda funny on the German Channel "Pro-7".

They have a stupid Casting Show called "Sommermädchen 2009" (Summergirl 2009) and on this day, the finale was on air. They used this effect here. But not just this effect...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF5j0b5Q8yw

EXCELLENT!
THANK U!

Hey people,

I was working on this effect, and had the same problem with the scaling, with the black screen showing instead of the Earth image, however, I found an easy way to (sort of) fix this. For some reason AE doesn't recognize any value below 1 for the scaling. What you want to do, is the following:
- Just leave the black screen when you enter 0,0005%, which will be changed by AE into 0,0%, and go on with choosing the exponential scale.
- You will notice that the black screen is gone and the earth image is visible. However, the earth looks very tiny, which doesn't looks very nice (however, that's just my opinion). If you check the scale at the end of scale-animation, you will see that it has the value of 0,0001. Also, if you go through the whole scale-animation, you will see that the Earth will 'shrink', but stops 'shrinking' while the exponential scaling hasn't even ended yet.
- What you want to do, is search the part where the Earth has the size as you wanted it to be. The next thing you have to do, is deleting all the keyframes that come after it. If you have done that, and you check the whole animation, it will stop at the right moment.

This worked for me so far, I hope it'll help you guys. Good luck

P.S. I'm from the Netherlands, so please forgive me if there is any bad spelling in my comment (I always like to keep it clean, I know how hard it is to read when someone writes unreadable stuff with lack of dots and stuff.)

Note: Some details about the outcomes as I described it (like the tiny Earth), could be different than others, because of the sizes of the PSD's you use, etcetera

Note 2: With 'sort of fixing', I ment that when you will fix the problem with the scaling, the stuff like time will slightly change, so if you made the animation last 10 seconds in the first place, it will end up lasting 9.1 seconds or something like that.

Andrew Kramer Tutorials = awesome After Effects

Great tutorial. I was able to get decent photos out of google earth. What would make it even better is to combine maltaanon's tutorial for 'Advanced 3D Planets' (created with CC Sphere).
http://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/advanced-3d-planets/

Although I don't know how the heck to do it because my last layer (Pre comp of 3D spinning planet) would be spinning. I start zooming out from downtown LA and then end up in Africa. Any suggestions on how this can be done?

Hi, video copilot creaters, excellent creations...nice tute, my HD movie making come true.....
manoj Boogloo

this is awesome man, where did u take this satellite pictures from?

whaaaaa...that was amazing!totally brilliant!you are bad!!!thanks man!you're the master,the prof!

Just like code said:

"alright, i just wanted to let everyone know that the best solution i have found so far is to parent every layer to the last layer (earth) and then, starting with the scale of that layer at 25 million, keyframing it down to 100. i can see this causing a lot of problems and it definitely isn't perfect. that being said, i could still use some advice on this one."

This method works but it's extremely slower and less user friendly.

I had to move my anchor point up to a 0.00001 precision (my project is kinda bigger than the one in the tutorial)

I got the same problem as Olli,

"Hi. Thanks for that great tutorial.
Still i've got a question:
Wenn i connect all Layers to Layer Nr. 1 I just see a Black Window.
If I Scale Layer Nr.1 at 100 I can see the right Picture, but if i scale it up and down i can't see the other Layers. They are not connectet any more.
Does any of you know why this is happening.
THX Olli"

Old tutorials doesnt work :/

Hi. Thanks for that great tutorial.
Still i've got a question:
Wenn i connect all Layers to Layer Nr. 1 I just see a Black Window.
If I Scale Layer Nr.1 at 100 I can see the right Picture, but if i scale it up and down i can't see the other Layers. They are not connectet any more.
Does any of you know why this is happening.
THX Olli

Hi, i really like this tute, and want to use it for a promo video i'm working on. i live in Australia and was just wondering how you got the high res pics of San Francisco, i would like to get some of a city here.

Cheers.

alright, i just wanted to let everyone know that the best solution i have found so far is to parent every layer to the last layer (earth) and then, starting with the scale of that layer at 25 million, keyframing it down to 100. i can see this causing a lot of problems and it definitely isn't perfect. that being said, i could still use some advice on this one.

great tutorial, but please, im begging, explain the parenting problem. all my scale values are automatically set to zero when i unparent the images... i have no idea what to do.

I am a Taiwanese,I used this technique to my job,it is very easily

Hey!! what A tutorial, incredible once again, you do that very easily

hiim salma from morocco lov it its cooooooooooool

Thanks a lot for all your great tutorials !
Please, continue to help me to realise my graphic dreams !
Thank you very much !

I love you Andrew! You're a star!

hi team,
thanks for this great toturial i admire your work andrew im just starting with fx cs3 keep up the good work ,and keep them coming where can i download this toturial because i have a slow internet connection i want to try it much respect ,and blessings from suriname

Were can i get those pictures??????

and if some body know how to do smallville effects did you know andrew???????????

great one..

Thank you Andrew.

andrew u rock man...thnks 4 the video

thanks man.......

whewre did you get the map images?

so cool, so clear
thanks ! :)

Hey,

If you want to use Google Earth, there is already an option to save these photos to your drive. You can also go to View and there's an option to resize the window for DV video.

Muy buenos proyectos los felicito a todos

Andrew, great tutorial, I'd like to do this tutorial but with a different location, how can I find photos at different altitudes? I have google earth, but there are all of the blue signs, and the quality isn't that good...any suggestions?

You are a Fu***** sick man, awesome tutorials.
Thanks for sharing your work!!!!!! :D

Its me! Just follow the tutorial then highlight every element and precompose it then reverse that comp

Nice tutorial AK. Keep 'em coming.

Can this be done in the other direction?

awesome tutorial!
keep your great work

cheers from brazil

This is a great tutorial
But i got one Question:
where do i get those Pictures for the earth zoom ?

greeting from france

nous somme partout bande d"enfoiré ^^

all the way from mexico... thanks man... u really rock and kick butt doin' this!

wel i jus wana say ther r people certified by adobe they say in their tutorials
but this Guy iz the DADDY....

THANKS

Hi All,

I found free high res images of the earth at http://www.unearthedoutdoors.net/global_data/true_marble/download

Have a look at my earth zoom, http://bit.ly/h5ehV

Thanks

where can I get those picitures help??? Can you send them by E-mail please my e-mail is sosakasbe@hotmail.com

you sure know how to show everybody to make every thing you're the best ANDREW

Thank you very much...

I'm learning with you....

This is amazing..

Hey Andrew I just wanted to say I hate you and ya I'm just saying that to be different than everyone else. Thanks for all the help. You don't know how many ideas I get just watching your the little mouse over videos of your tutorials.

Thanks for the inspiration,
Funkmaster A_Cron

Andrew,

keep up the great work, we will support you and this webiste by spreading the word around and by purchesing the verious product available.

I look forward to learning from the master himself. you should plan to go on tour and when you do, dont forget to stop in Minneapolis, MN. land of the frozen chosen!

guitarlosMPLS

Somebody tell me please how i supposed to remove that white area around on earth? Nice tutorial, but i wanna get away from that white area. It is in the picture. Why?

Thanks.

Muchas gracias...!

un monton de agradecimiento al portal, su pagina es muy interensante especialmente para personas del ambito de la comunicacion.

this dont work for me, i have the latest version of after effects.
when i change the scale of pic 1 when all the pics are parented to pic 1, all the pics just change to the same size as pic 1?!? need a little help!!

SOS UN CAPO MAN!!!!! desde Argentina!!! Grosso!!!! muchas gracias

thank you so much!!!
I wanted to know that.

Where can I get high def aerial shots for broadcast? Google brands a copyright on their images.....

Also

Is there an expression for exponensial scale? Got pro at home but not at work, what a pain in the hoo haa.

And thank you!!!

what's up bigest after effect man andrew karmer . thats gooooooood.

Are the project files free to use? :D

You rock man!

This is so fun to watch your tutorial. Learning a LOT!

Thanks for your effort

Nice one Andrew
BTW where can i get maps???
I mean frm my area. Google earth???

where could you get the satelite photographs for europe

this is super!!!!

Mine doesnt even go into space. It stops at the pic where the coast and the bridge is. I Dont even see USA etc. Help :S

very cool tutorial i was wondering were
you got the satellite pic from i want to do one of london
holla bk
bless

I Spotted the use of this stuff in a "Flight of the Conchords Video" http://www.hbo.com/conchords/video/index.html
THe video is the "Final Masterpiece" one

Do you make all of this stuff yourself and then show us? or does Jesus teach you all of this beautiful stuff.... sick sick tut man

Hey thanks Andrew. I used the parenting technique for the free fall in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTf6CzTeyYM

Hi, I'm really impressed with all this great project, you guys really save peoples lives...take a look at this website...

www.vfxproducoes.com

I think they are copying yours stuff and selling it on dvds, I just found on youtube another tutorial just like this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZkGxrvXKoo

kind regards,
thx again!

where could you get the satelite photographs?

where could you get the satelite photographs?

thanks for this great toturial i admire your work andrew im just starting with fx cs3 keep up the good work ,and keep them coming where can i download this toturial because i have a slow internet connection i want to try it much respect ,and blessings from suriname

O man Andrew
U ever Done a Good Job, Please Make some thing bad work for your Competitors.

Andrew a Great Man

Awesome !!! lol You are a great guy. And the same question, what program you use to record?. It was difficult to me to get involved in AE but since I met your since, I can't just get out of my screen watching your tutorial.

Thats Kool lolololol

nice

Andy this is the best site of all time. You have saved my life!!!

Great teaching style too. You always have me in stitches!!!!!
Totally awesome dude!

OK, where can i find a rope that long???

hey nice tutorial
i got 1 problem my second last layer doesn't move with all the rest of the layers and i can't fix it
anyone got any su

I was having the same zooming issues as I've seen posted here. The problem is the anchor points. I had 15 layers and when I ran a small test (5-7 layers) it was fine .. once I got above that it didn't work. It was the Anchor points on layers 8-15 .. I had to reset those maunally to be the same center as the rest and that took care of it :)

I used this tutorial to create my own earth zoom-out that is the final sequence in my latest documentary about a group of law students who tour the deep south in a bus. In the final scene, the students walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the site of one of the bloodiest attacks in American civil rights history. The scene ends with an aerial shot of the bridge, then zooms out to reveal the planet and a quote by Howard Thurman. It's very effective. Thanks, Andrew.

Eres el mejor adrew!!!
gracias por tus tutos!!
desde Colombia

Hey Andrew,

Great work mate!

Im having a problem zooming out after parenting all the layers to layer 1, im using cs3 and dont know if thats the problem. I have followed your steps very carefully but still I seem to get stuck hear? If anyone can help it would mean alot :)

Keep up the great work from Australia

Andrew:
What software did you use to make the tutorial number 40 Earth Zoom for obtain the photos with HD?

Sincerely
Guillermo

hey,
This is a great tutorual but where did u get the pictures from????

Hi Andrew

Where do I find maps in high definition on the Internet?

tks

james

Thanks Andrew Brother i like u And u r Tutorial sf

First and foremost, THANK YOU!!! With a program as extensive and powerful as After Effects, there is NO WAY I would ever even come close to learning this stuff without these tutorials.

I'm working on AE CS3 and the expression you used for the shaking effect would not take. That was the one and only discrepancy I ran into. Anyone know what's up with that?

Also, to get the images, I used Google.com's map search. Just make sure all the labels are off. If you're on a PC, you should be able to use the Print Screen option to take the screencap and just trim it down in a photo editor. I'm on a Mac and had to use the Grab app, not from Safari's menu but from the applications folder, and captured by selection. I ended up taking about 18 of them, one from each zoom level. I'm quite content with the finished product, especially given that it was my first attempt. I didn't line up the layers perfectly, but with the motion blur and at the speed at which it zooms out, it was hard to identify.

Again, thank you so much for these tutorials. I'd have a very expensive hard drive occupier without them.

Where did you get the photo shop pictures of San Fransisco?

here is my attempt! http://vimeo.com/3770195 thanks for all of the great info!

verry good job!!!

Hey guys the pictures he uses in this tutorial didnt come from google maps. if you see the rotation and the side lights of the buildings you will see they are offset to google maps. i dont still know where he go his maps from. "would like to though".

these pictures as far as i know are not from google maps. If you take a look at the Transamerica pyramids in google maps it has a different height and rotation offset to the one he uses in his project. still dont know where he got it from though.

I just found this site and I've got to say this is the coolest site I've ever come across. Simply amazing tuts. Thanks videocopilot.net!!!!

merci beaucoup andrew kramer

get Google maps to get the images

so cool ,man!!!

Amazing. It's very useful Tutorial! Thanks Andrew

Thanks for the awesome tutorial. Appreciate it.

it tutotial is good, andrew congratulations.

At first: very nice tutorial

and, i saw exactly the same shot at the CeBit (maybe you know)
I didn't remember which brand it was, but i was really surprised to see a shot, which I created in After Effects

And Andrew, you're awesome ;)

Awesome tutorial. Did it once and was fine, now trying with different images and half way through when i test all images parenting to the first image, they all disappear leaving tiny block in the middle - has anyone else had this? Really annoying, is it because i'm scaling out too far?

merci pour ton tuturial ca fait plaisir pour nous merci merci

Many thanks for this.. love it..
Youre site is awsome

hey there, is there a way to make the same thing but opposite? from space to surface of the earth?

You are the man!

Thank you so much

http://celestia.h-schmidt.net/earth-vt/

^HI RES Earth texture maps

i have figured out a way to add sun an where the sun dont shining the dark side of the planet will turn into night and all the lights from the cities will shine right after it have cross the dark! But Can you please make a tutorial where you shows how you make the terminator Sam! xD please! :)

"we" now greeting from Jakarta, Indonesia ,
we love this stuffssss .............

Hey love all ur tutorials but my question for this one is how do u get the pictures to make the zoom. i have tried getting some the google earth and a couple other websites but i am unable to get them.

Hello there Andrew.
I like ur style, realy nice tutorial.
Helps a lot to get into Affter Effects and stuff.
Keep on going....

if it's a reversal of this effect you are looking for it is a simple as putting the finished QT or AVI into you editing software and reversing the clips playing direction. You will need to render this out but a quick and easy way to do this.
Also as far as hi-res images to make this happen, use google earth for your wide shots whole earth ect. Once you find your ending point record its exact position using longitude and Latitude and then get the last few close up images using the same long/lat as for your wide shots. Google earth start to turn the camera as it gets real close. Easy as that.
great tutorial though.

Great tutorials!!! you're amazing.

You are the coolest and your method of teaching is incredible, keep up the good work...

cool .. awesome

Thanks, Andrew! Fantastic as usual!!! :)

Hi i am your fan and i regularly watched ur video its amazing and gr8.I am a student a i learn lots of trick to u so thanks and provides us lots of many new tutorials,

I seem to be having quite alot of difficulty getting this to work, I'm not sure if it is because I am in CS3 or if I have instaled a plug in incorrectly but once I have gone through, linked all the layers and then when I get to the stage where I relink everything to layer one and go, set layer one scale to 100, I am then unable to zoom in and out, even though the layers are parented it seems as though they are not connected and the scale only seems to change the properties to that one picture.

Please Help

haw to resolve with exponential problem


1.jpg selected, tool bar/Animetion/Add exponential

and then,choose 2 key flame ,and open key menu,
you can use it.

thank you andrew , I love your tutorials

Loving these tutorials been trying loads but I'm having a problem with this one, Instead of having the globe as a picture, I've got a texture (used from the 3d planet tut) which I've used the cc sphere plugin but when I try and parent all my layers to layer 1 so I can sort out the scale everything dissapears! This only seems to happen when I'm using the sphere plugin. Any help is greatfully appreciated!! My final aim is to zoom out from a point on the earth and then rotate the globe with stars etc etc. (basically linking the two tutorials together)

Bad ass. I used Yahoo Maps and just put a mask over the sign in the very last frame. I actually did it in reverse, starting with the earth.

Please....in spanish!!!!!!!!!!!
Taduction.....Please!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice tutorial ;)

BTw , what program are you recording with?

Hey Andrew, I tried downloading the project file for this tutorial, but when I go to open it, it doesn't work.

haha I love that little intro for this tutorial, that's hilarious man!

you r the best :> ........

i want this effects temme how can take?? any 1 share ??

Hi Andrew... and everyone

this tut really rocks
but im having a problem if the pics...
I can't find a decent high res pic..
i tryed the google earth and google maps but
the problem is the clouds... the water mark is
easy to take off, but the clouds are killing me.

Thanks for everything Andrew you is the best
and sorry for the english... im from Brazil

Very Good!
Congratulations Andrey!

I admire you sir... best tutorials are only in this site!!

Andrew your tutorials are priceless

Outstanding Tutorial Andrew. Your other work is amazing as well. You are a true Hollywood genius.

Hi AK,

Great Work! @ Kudos...

Would like know, How you had tracked the still image_01 for scaling?

Also Pls let me your contact info;

Congrats Again.:)

Prabu~

With this tutorial and the one after (tutorials 40 and 41) I made the intro of this video: http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf9PJli-7ZI
I also use tutorial 66 to the end of the video.

Thanks Andrew K.
You are an amazing artist. :)

To everyone who reads this, have a Happy New Year... full of new After Effects. :P

this is way cool.. it's just outside my reach, i got to get myself an AE.. i should start learning now..
cool, just way too cool..
congrats man..

hi andrew kramer, first of all i love this tutorial, thanks for helping me :D

my question to you andrew is how do you get those high quality pics, because i use google earth and i do printscreen -.- the best resolution i can get is like 900 X 600, and that doenst work with this tutorial, i thought the problem was mine but i tried with your pics and it worked perfectly

now i saw some comments here of people that dont want the zoom out, but the zoom in. My opinion is to make the video as this tutorial (zoom out) and then using a video editor software like Ulead video studio you can make the video play form the end to the begining so that will have a effect of zoom in :)
staw well

Thanks man, really helped me...
here is the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUbP2RYjyY
not so pretty as yours but, ... :)

i really like ur work
keep on andrew.........

thanks a lot ,it help me

nice tutorial., with twitch is the zoom nicer =)

What sound do you use in this Composition ?

ilove your works
vere vere good

i love your works
and i love your products
thank you so much,Andrew and other your friends...

I Love this website and survay it every day.

Thank you so much,Andrew.

Andrew, your stuff rocks

Hey andrew! I love this tutorial... very ocmplete and explicit, I just have a question? How can I revert the video?? I did the zoom out, but I think that zooming in looks cooler.. is there a function to revert this?

Thank you andGod bless you!
Tyler

Hey..., u r Great man I learn a lot from u.Raj from : - India

A very long one, Thank you man!

greetings from Mexico City

Nice tutorial men, u rock

hey andre very nice tutorial

very cool saw were do you get the images from?

because I try with google but evrytime I zoom in the resolution goes bad

it goes pixel lated.

saw if you have any sugestions please tell me thanks

michael...

if you can do it on the zoom out, so that is possible to do the reverse way to zoom in correct? where can i be able to download all those satallit pictures?

Thanks man, you are awesome!!!

i want you to see guys what i made with the earth zoom it s not finished yet , thank you andrew krimer http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=gygn9NOf79g

love u andrew and ur work

Thans for all your videos , you are awesome man, i have a problem, i dont know if its a problem of my computer or internet perhaps, but i cant see the zoom on earth video, dont load... please i need your see that video, good job, thanks for your time.

Sweet but how would you reverse it?

Thanks for this tutorial..
pretty fascinating! and clear!

TOTALLY AWESOME !!
ur the best dude. LOVE THIS STUFF !! WOOHOO =D

awesome. being here for the first time. you're the man, Andrew. Keep it coming.

Hi Andrew you're is the best

You just about just about had me for a second there at the start with the balloon joke.

Nice tutorial

Wow Andrew, this stuff is awesome! Your tutorials are extremely helpful. So far I've done about 3 of them and put 2 on youtube. If anyone would like to see them and give me feedback, then that would be great.

I love this tutorial especially. I've always wondered how this is done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdTQIJOQi7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHEOtOZWn0

I'll upload my version of this one soon.

Thanks Andrew!

Thank you man!!!! Your work is really great! I don't know anyone who makes such good tuts. Best regards from Germany!

always loved this tutorial
now wondering if I can apply this technique to do an 'eye zoom out' effect, those ones you can often see in flashback or premonition movies :P

I have been watching your videos and it really inspires me so much to do make my ideas come to reality.

There's just one question i wanna ask and i know you Andrew can help me. Ive been trying the luma matt and its good because the background is set free. But the thing is the color is altered to black and white. How can i or what other sort can i do to track matt the image and how to retain its original color.

You are god, I just convert my self to Kramerism

can anyone tell me how to save the pictures from Yahoo maps? no idea how :S

Awesome tutorial!!!!! Thanks a lot Andrew...
Ive been wondering how they make this effect in movies, and now I know..... Amazing!!!!

Cheers

hi where i can download pictures for this tutorial? i cannot speake english good. . . :(
please send me link on meil where i can download ather pictures

Great tutorial.

For Netty and everybody who is looking for good maps I'll recomend maps.yahoo.com
They've got hi-quality maps without visible mistakes (you can see them for example in Google Earth as many-colour sqares).

The only one thing is little plus in center (but it's preety helpful when synchronising layers)

Dear Andrew (or anyone who can answer me).

Where did you get such high-res map? I tried on Google Earth but it didn't work. When I zoom out (pull out) some areas are just meaningless colourful square pixels. Well, I'm talking about Thailand. I guess our satellites are not good enough, hehe. So.. if you would help me with this, I would be really thankful. (i'm a student and this is my final project. I'm trying to persuade my teacher to buy your products since we are starting to buy new things to our department).

Thanks in advanced,
Netty

Great tutorials, great techniques. Thanks!

PLEASE HELLLLLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!
I've followed your wonderful tuto (I have AE CS3)step by step but I'm stucked on step when setting the scale of first layer to .0005%. When I do that, I get a black screen with a dot in the middle and I cannot see my planet earth layer!
I thought it could be a scale issue (I was using my own custom layers), so I tried several values: 0.05, 0.005, 0.0005, 0.0000005...... 0,12234567# and allways got the same dang black screen!!!!
I tried with the original layers downloaded from here and nothing! I set my composition to exactly the same values you did in your tutorial and NOTHING! I'm desperated, what am I doing wrong? >:8
I`ve noticed your 1rst layer position is "-0,0 -0,0" and mine is "360,0 240,0". Could be that the problem?
I've read all comments and noticed some have the same problem than me but anyone give even a clue about a possible solution...
Any goodhearted here? :'(

Amazing Tutorial . I like it , thanks Andrew very much . Hope , YOu upload new tutorials .

HEY! excelente tutorial. thanks

This tut rocks !! You're my heroe man !!
Thanks a billion for sharing this !

Does anyone know the copyrights of those google earth pictures. Can those screenshot pictures used in commercial video. We have entertaising agency and I had idea to use this kind of video in our firms advertising.

WTF this sucks!!!

i tried that thing with the weather balloon..
IT DIDNT WORK!! WTF A.K.?

lol jk no really what is the best way to get the pics.. google earth/printscrn/photoshop?

pleas tell me were i can find the fly.wav (folder)

i tried.

but like if i want to do another place how do i get the pics of zoom from google earth?

Rage,
Give a moment when you zoom in , coz google earth takes fraction of minute to display the view, if you zoom in ,randomly.

Anzh,
You can get the pictures its not big thing.Google it.

how did you get all the pictures?

i 've downloaded google earth and it's a very cool software to use.
but i seem to have a problem....
when i zoom a place very deep the image become pixilated and cannot be seen....why is this happening ???
Andrew kramer got all nice images and did not seem to face this problem....all his images all well to be seen...even though the 3d buildings all very clear...

can someone tell me what;s wrong with my problem ?

A user on vimeo.com watching my video from this tutorial that i did a year ago and asked me to make one for him: http://vimeo.com/1826713

Andrew............ your my teacher.....i learnt alot from you......

Thanks for being so brilliant....thanks for being my teacher......

god bless u teacher.........

I love the bit at the start with the fishing wire and the weather balloon! All your tuts are brilliant.
Very inspiring.
Thanks
God bless

if you want to get the map segments for your town/city look in the resources section of videocopilot.net and it has the programs used to get the shots.

Yo Andrew. Thank U for this tutorial and for the rest of them. U are the best. I hope to see you working with Stiven Spilberg or some other great director. Your tutorials helped me very much...
GREATINGS FROM POLAND !!! :P:P ( Hope you know where is it :) )

Andrew,

U are a wonderful teacher!!I love your site and your tutorials are out of this world. thank you for sharing your skills with us.

Dee

Great tutorial !!!
Working on it now, just one problem
Where do you get the images from ?

Keep em coming, your vids are awesome !!!

nice tutorial.....thx

Andrew,

You're the bomb. Thanks for all the great tutorials. So, where do I donate?

Stephen

Hi there , lovely tutorial but is it possible to make it zoom in instead of out ?

Nice tutorial. . . . Like all other!
Thanx Andrew !

It's awsome man!!!!!
Thx a lot from Belgium

To Leo, Jonathan, Stefan,
I've also had this problem. I can't understand why, but you can either make the last layer have like 10billion% zoom, or you can hide the first layer, and make it have like 10 million zoom. It works at least.

If anybody has a good answer how to fix this problem, please post.

This is so totally awsome!
Is it possible to buy your dvd?

Regards from Sweden

Your teaching style is great
Thank you very much
See you ;)

i cant express my words how excellent tutorials
we got from you thank you very very much
for helping vfx category.
thank you once again.

Where can you get the images from?

would you be willing to do one of these for me... specifically with it starting from Dallas, TX (USA) and then zoom out to the same image?

Thank you very much Andrew... it was an excellent tutorial...

Anybody has some tips to generate high definition map image files? Since I intend to have a different location, I cannot use the one its available with the project files (SFO).... I tried it with google earth and image quality is not pretty decent....

Great tutorial - we're all Kramer fans in our studio!
For people wanting hi-res sat images, try maps.live.com - They're high quality and you can turn all of the controls off around the edge, to get a bigger image.
I got a load from there - i just opened the page on the highest res monitor possible, then took a screenshot and cropped out the edge in photoshop.
When you are scaling in AE, each layer is 50% of the previous one - handy!
You also don't need any rotation, but matching the zoomed out one to the globe is tricky.
For the globe image, i just took the satellite image of the whole world, carefully cropped it and used CC Sphere to globify it.
Enjoy (and remember to credit microsoft for the images!!)

40. is the best, i will say the pretty best tutorial...its really funny to see what the programm can do...

Wooow. absolutely wonderful man. I appreciate your time for making these

Great tutorial,but i have a question where can i find the photos(layers)?
Thank you.

Thank U Very Much Andrew!!

I have a problem that appears to be the same from posted by Jonathan 08/16/2008.

When I unparent all the layers and then parent layer 2 and followers, all the scale goes to 0% and nothing happens. I´ve tried some different ways and don´t have any results.

The only thing I could do was zooming out the composition for the hardest way, dealing with the superzoommed scale, like 3 million%, but I would like to learn the way you did, which is clealy practical and intelligent.

Thanks a lot man, you are a great guy. A big hug from Brazil.

what to do when you create new comp and dont see the riot gear... what to do?

awesome tutorial but how did you get those pictures at different zoom levels because tried google earth and that just does not work

Greetings Andrew ...

and the rest of ur audience, i think this is my first post.

I think you are the best at what you do, great work

quick question (and i see that it has been asked before0 where do i get pics of different places to use for a similar effect (i live in the caribbean)

I hope i get a anwser soon:

Sometimes you get the video full screen and then you edit it. How do you do that? Is it a shortcut? All i can do is zoom in but that isn't very helpfull...

grts, TO

Man how can i thank u for all u great tutorials
God bless u :)

This is amazing! How would you do this in reverse?

I would love to do this i can make a 3D World but where in hells name am i going to find HD pics of Where i live FROM SPACE! plz link ><.

Hey guys, thanks for sharing where to find the pictures to create this!

Tony

thanx to Ur tutorial, i was able to do a similar project. really helped me alot, i was kind of worried if it was possible at all in after effects or if i had to model an actually globe and get a high resolution image for it.Its really helpful thanx alot man!

Andrew u rock man, u r the man, thnx alot , i love ur tutorials and i have learned alot from them keep rocking man!!!! lots of love and respect from pakistan

thats awesome, where do u find the high res pics at different levels ?

Hi there Andrew

Great tutorial man, however,

When I unparent all layers to 'none' and then parent 'Layers 2 and Following' to layer 1 the scaling drops to zero on most layers? What am I doing wrong here?

Please help!

Im new to AE!!!

Hi Andrew Kramer. This tutorial is pretty pretty cool. I've found what i wont. Biggggggggggg Thanks

Thanks alot! this is just the best site ever! Thanks Videocopilot.

guaaauu!!man, good job!!! ....great!!!!

very thanks andrew kramer ? from turkey :D thank ingilizce konu?mas?n? bimiyorum

its really super, thanks alot

Hi

Great tutorial man.

When parent all the layers to layer one the scaling drops to zero on most layers? What am I doing wrong here?

Im new to AE!!!

Nice... I had to sign up for the site you have the best tutorials I've seen. Where do you get the pics used for Earth Zoom? Is there a site that has other cities?

Hi Andrew!
We have the same name, but my is in brazilian portuguese...
So, I have 17 years and I'm a begginer in 3Ds Studio Max 2009 and thanks to you now I'm ultra interesting in After Effects!

I love your tutorials, jokes, everything!
As soon as possible I will buy your bundle,...
It's amazing!

Thanks for all!

P.S.: Sorry for my poor english, I'm still learning...

hi :)

I tried it using DV camera baloon,record botton was pressed

goob job

I just saw this in motion tonight in a comercial on NBC promoting the olympics!
Props to Andrew!

hi
where can i get that great photos of the earth?

My solution to the exponential scale problem is to copy the keyframes from the tutorial project file, paste it in your own comp. If you want to make adjustments be sure to use ONE of the original keyframes and make a new exponential scale. . .

hey guys go koco.com and from there click interactive radar
heres the link though http://www.koco.com/interactive-radar/index.html

just find your state city and you can even zoom in onto your house!

GREAT.... just what i need... you are great....

Hi, i cann't watch the video and i don't know why.
Is there any problem in the website.
Thx for replying.

WOW............!!!

höngggg thanks

It's really cool, but I got a question. If I want the move playby the zoom in not zoom out, something like at first show the the earth and than satellite locate somewhere and zoom in, keep so on till show a place. how to do that? I try to opposite the proccess but it's not work.

Lol funny at the beginning! xD Fishstring!

this is good but i didnt find pic. ele bundan yana sikim varyoxuzu

Thnx for the tut andrew!

I have the same problem as stefan (6-29-2008)
When I unparant all layers and then parant them 2 one. When I zoom out all layers seem to be turned off (with the eye).. you just don't see them anymore:s

how come?

gr8 tutorial!! i got couple Q
1) how u get those pics?
2) if have them from google earth or maps how u disabled the watermark?
THX 4 TUTORIAL MAN!! :)

Hi every body

I am so surry for my bad english because I am an Iranian guye.
Any way I hope Andrew make, more tutorials for learning us, and give us a download link for each toturials that we can use better than last.

Tnak you andrew, and bye

What planet are u from? you are a servant of God

where did you get the pictures from. very cool effect man

hi were did you get the pictures from ????? chears

Man. Andrew, you are absolutely genious!

Man. Andrew, you are absolutely genious!

Muito Bom!!!

Hi Andrew so nice tut. btw i got problem , when i unparent all and parent to layer 1 and than zoom out the earth is gone , i can see it when i zoom out , just got all zoom outs and last one is black backround no earth there, so i wonder what is the prob i couldnt find it , plz help here dude . ty , go on with the free tuts im realy glad there's so nice free tuts since i cant afford to buy ur dvds sry =/

Hi Andrew so nice tut. btw i got problem , when i unparent all and parent to layer 1 and than zoom out the earth is gone , i can see it when i zoom out , just got all zoom outs and last one is black backround no earth there, so i wonder what is the prob i couldnt find it , plz help here dude . ty , go on with the free tuts im realy glad there's so nice free tuts since i cant afford to buy ur dvds sry =/

Hi Andrew so nice tut. btw i got problem , when i unparent all and parent to layer 1 and than zoom out the earth is gone , i can see it when i zoom out , just got all zoom outs and last one is black backround no earth there, so i wonder what is the prob i couldnt find it , plz help here dude . ty , go on with the free tuts im realy glad there's so nice free tuts since i cant afford to buy ur dvds sry =/

Thanks Andrew, very good tutorials, i learned alot from this. Good job

hi andrew i saw some the tut.s it is awesome i am from Ethiopia not Utopia ok so and i m film editor and i dont have resources for learnign this saffs so thanks this good. can i ask some Q? i need to make a ghost like the one found in X-men 2 i frooget his name(the German aqcent the that tried to kidnapp the presedant in white house what is your advice . thank u andrew

or you could zoom out on google earth and record it

jk, awesome tutorial

Gabil that's impressive!!!
Andrew thank you once again ... this one's one of my favorites. I'm having a little problem. I downloaded the Project folder so i could use your earthstill.png file. I imported it and did everything pretty much but when i scaled it out I noticed the white box around the earth (the .png file picture is actually a square, where the earth is) was still there. I know that box is supposed to be transparent but somehow it still shows. Can't figure out what to do. If anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it.

This is what I mean

Thank you!!

_Alex_ ... GO B-BOYS!!

Gabil that's impressive!!!
Andrew thank you once again ... this one's one of my favorites. I'm having a little problem. I downloaded the Project folder so i could use your earthstill.png file. I imported it and did everything pretty much but when i scaled it out I noticed the white box around the earth (the .png file picture is actually a square, where the earth is) was still there. I know that box is supposed to be transparent but somehow it still shows. Can't figure out what to do. If anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it.

This is what I mean

Thank you!!

_Alex_ ... GO B-BOYS!!

Andrew,

Best tutorial I have seen so far! Thank you for what you do.

YES!!

thanks

very nice , Thank you

Russia greetings you Andrew!
Very nice tut. you're inspiring hundreds of peoples to get close to the world's best special effects tool which is called to be - "After Effects".

Thank you so much dude!

Awesome tutorial! This totally saved my butt!!! See the completed zoom in I produced for the intro of this site.

http://www.degreerookie.com/

Cheers!

the videocopilot gives very friendly & useful tutorials

hey, great tutorial, very inlightning, anyhow, where did you get those images?
thanks and great work!

I have a New Religion, Endrew Kramerizm

Dogan from Turkey

Hey if anyone could help me out with this I've been stuck on it for quite some time. Whenever I unparent and then re-parent all layers to first layer, All my images disappear except for the image on the first layer. Originally I was using 19 images, so I cut them in half to 9. I've done everything exactly as he does in the tutorial and can't figure it out. If anyone has any answers please help!

eres lo mejor,,,eres lo mejor,,,,,

man! ur all works are awesome... u realy got a sense coz every work of urs are mind blowing n full of style... :). sorry my english is not so good but hope u guys'll understand wut i m trying 2 say bout these genius guy who are helping us n teaching us such a mind blowing tutorials...:)

Hey Andrew can you tell us where you got the high quality images for this tutorial? Google Earth doesn't cut it. Thanks.

What stills can be legally used for this rather tasty effect.Wow lovely.however google and microsoft do not permit use.who does

Awesome effect!

I was looking for something like this!!
o you mind telling me where you got your high res images?
thanks a lot, & keep up the good work!

I've watched more than 20 of your TUT's, and this is BY FAR your best. I really enjoyed the product of this, but I do wish you include the pictures (and other media in other projects) that you have in the project download. It would help out a ton.

Your TUT's are the best that I've seen on the internet, so keep it up!

Fantastic !!!
And good joke in beginnig !!!

Hi Andrew

Super Tutorial, you work is always an inspiration.
Just one question after going through the blog, were did you get your hirez first image from? (goggle earth is not that hot)

thanks again for all the tutorials

thank you very very ...for all tuts

thank you MR andrew karmer for all those free tutorials you are my best teacher thanks alot and am happy to learn from super pro artist like you

i wante you to make another free tutorials about the tacking and also how we can make 3d invorment withe pictures and real movie

thanks again

amazing tutorial!!!!

thanks

Bino

http://portfoliobino.free.fr/

This is great
Thanx a lot

check out my version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvbqMIOvLNE

I think he got the high res pics from:
http://maps.live.com/
its high res maps from Microsoft :D

Love this tutorial! Combined it with the Blue Planet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu_kzSiGlM0

hey andrew this is an amazing tutorial.thanx

i forgot my e-mailadress

pleas tell me were i can find the fly.wav (folder)

can anybody tell me were is the fly.wav from???

Andrew is the best!!!

forgive me... my english is terible

Going mad Going MAD!!!!!

Still can't figure out what's wrong, so i'm gonna start again in te vain hope that i missed something the first time round.
Fingers crossed guys!

Andrew, for the love of all that is artificially created in a computer, put us out of our misery and tell me what i'm doing wrong!!! >-(

Your tutorial is great! I was wanting to make this effect in one of my current projects and this tutorial will make it much more impressive. Where did you find the images you used for the maps? Thanks.

Andrew, ur presets and tutorials are just awesome!

I've got the same problem as Dan:
'Dan Says:04/29/2008 - 18:49
now for some reason, when I un-parent all the layers and re-parent them to layer 1, all my layers disappear'
Don't know whats wrong, any ideas anyone?????
It's driving me mad, i can't see why all my layers vanish!!!

thank you Andrew

thank you Andrew

Hi Andrew,

ive said it before and id say it again - your are an AE artist -i love your work!

I have a question though for this tutorial, i have made the nifty smooth zoom with the Exponential Scale, BUT i wanna make some movement on the planet before the zoom starts, but the zoom start so rapidly, can u give me a hint how to make the zoom start real slow at the beginning?

If any one else can help, id be glad also :D

Cheers

Gr8

thanks for sharing

Very Very Impressive andrew sir and i think the best of yours

Andrew.. this tutorial is just great!!!
By the way! EVERYONE having problems with the Exponential Function (meaning you have the option, but it's always grayed out) I figured out how to get it working.
This is what you do.
Instead of hitting the drop down triangle under the first jpg, hit "S" so it brings up the "scale" sub menu. add your key frames, then right click and Exponential Scale should be selectable. I don't know why it doesn't work with the drop down menu, but you must press S I guess..
Thanks again andrew!

hola..que bueno encontrar tipos como vos y que puedan enseñar programas como estos, lastima la condicion de nuestras lenguas, no has salido de las fronteras ..si fuera texto lo podria traducir..aunque algo puedo entender...y te comento que lo tengo que ver dos o tres veces porque vas muy ligero..very fast...te felicito, por tu dedicacion...antes que me olvide me interesa el efecto del zoom tierra..pero no me termina de bajar..se cuelga algunos kb antes como puedo hacer saludos.-

I did the tutorial.. and learned a lot ! I found that on AE7.. after 5 digit after the coma, AE is unable to handle the numbers.. so it's possible to have some problem (when you parent a lot of layers and scale them.) Great work Andrew !

Hi Andrew,
I am trying to recreate the earth zoom to fly into an aerial shot of a building from space... I have followed your tutorial up to linking all the layers and then unlinking them and then linking them all to the top (closest) layer.. now I go to give it exponential scale to smooth out the zoom and exponential scale in keyframe assistant is is greyed out!
any ideas?
Many thanks

Okay, I've done this before just like the tutorial showed and it worked just fine...now for some reason, when I un-parent all the layers and re-parent them to layer 1, all my layers disappear. Can someone tell me what I've done to mess this up?

Hey Andrew!! Thank you very much for this nice tutorial!! I've tested with photos of my town Nerja (in Spain) and here is the results... Enjoy it and thanks again!!

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=cC6RrMz_x8I

Great tutorial!
You can record the maps from google maps and setting off all the settings including icons for better view.

This is GREAT!! Have always wondered how to they make this in films! you're the best!

Hey All,

Does anyone know how to put a 3D Spin on the Earth after it lands? Like a slow rotation/revolution? Independent of the stars of course.

Oh, and Andrew...that was awesome!

Thanks,
Sean

thats is best way to learn After effects, thanks for all this stuff, i like it ;)

( i'am from cz, so hello from Ostrava )

Uping

yeah baby yeah!!!!!!!

where can i get pictures of a city

Here's how I used this tutorial:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2126480144482936305&q=source:013642788556193505667&hl=en

I also mimmicked the "Jumper" effect at the end :) hope you like it

Hi, very cool effect. I want to try it but i have just one problem: the Exponential Scale is grey, i cant use it. I use After Effects Professional CS3.
would you please help, or somebody else.
TNX!

Hi i am from norway so i can't spike so god englis.Can you give me the web site to explosions plugins for after effekts??Nice video

Great Tute! i have one question tough. Where did you get the various pics of the City? did you use Google Earth? Has anyone done this on another city? What did you use? thanks!

Hey dear... m very new in working with after effect...
previously i used the effect of Sony Vegas... and when we cut the video we used the shortcut key S to cut split the time line... but in After effect what was it? i need help...

I'm really confuse while i want to used one effct for like 5 sec. only... but that effect goes until the Muvi was end... and can i the Muvi and used the effect for like only 5 or 10 sec.???

Je suis français et j'ai réussi à tout comprendre! Bravo pour les explications claires et net!

mine didn't work, too

hello i tryd the weather baloon thingie and then after a few minutes it snapped and my camera fell all the way down... and now i need to buy a new camera for my stefgranddad... hmmm THX !

C'est tout simplement sublime !! Bien jouer Mr Kramer

I want to know wich programm was used to takes those pictures. With google earth it is not as sharp as it has to be, you see very blurry images and soms sharp images throug each other. I want the same sharp pictures that andrew used in this tutorial, but then from the netherlands. Can anyone tell me what programm this is?

Nice TUT, but i have ONE problem!
My "stillearth" picture (png) which should be transparent is NOT transparent in my comp and I don't know why cause i think i made it right.
Please help me!

it cool man. Keep up the good works.

Man...your tuts are just....amazin'.....and im benifiting from them...oh yeah love ya andrew...but soon you will have a new competitor...:D

Thank you so much, I'm going to do this for a film that I have to make for a class in high school and I will definitely blow everyone away with the special effects!

Your hilarious, and amazing at what u do... where did you learn all of this? how could i learn all of this?

Just astonishing!!! Im at a loss for words right. I feel so aspired when i watch these tutorials even though i suck at after effects!

great. it is also used in the action movie "crank"

U kick "S"

جميÙâ€

Hey. Everyone keeps asking: "Where do you get the images from?"
As for me I don't know where he got the high resolution images from. What I use is google earth for the in close pictures and NASA World Wind for the farther away pivtures(State and country). I use Wisdom-Soft ScreenHunter 5.0 Pro to capture the picture because after you can crop out anything you dont like. On google Earth it has all the writing at the bottom which you can crop out and on NASA World Wing it has the tool bar. Both have the top window and bottom window. Just use sreen hunter. Crop and your done. I don't know about the high res screens though.

where did u get the pictures!!!!!!!nice tutorial though just like always

Awesome tutorial! Where can I find similar pictures so I can do this effect without just redoing THIS effect? Specifically, I'd love to be able to zoom out of Baltimore.

Looks great, is that the building you work/live in? Cool to know your down in the SF area, I'm about 40 miles north of you!

Congratulations for the contribution that you
they give those that look for resources
more advanced in after.

hi Andrew,
i wrote to you message and i don't know
if you read it or not any way i just want to tell you
i dont want your help any more there is 6.60 billion
people on earth would like to help me.and if you think you are the best you are wrong bodie

thanks

Earth ZOom.comp LOL ZOom

HEY! Awesome tut. I usually use FCP programs, never used AE before and got it perfect first time! Thanks for a great tutorial. Ill be spending alot of time on this site

Hey Andrew, saw you at the AENY meeting the other day, thanx for the camera tracking insight. I got a question about this tutorial. I work for an agency that is always worried about getting sued. Where can i get good images that I can use for commercial use (even if i have to pay for them, preferably not of course)? I am also trying to convince them to buy twitch but need to get this first obstacle out of the way to make a case for purchase(s). Hopefully that will get you to answer my question sooner then later.

Zeid

ohhhhh thanks bro i win an oscar with your help thanksss

Donde puedo conseguir estas imágenes satelitales de optima calidad? Muy bueno el tutorial.

Great tutorial!
But for whatever reason, my exponential scale option is always grayed out. I can't used it.
I downloaded your project file and the exponential scale function works in there.
I have CS3 by the way.
Any suggestions?

A very cool tutorial. I like it reversed and when the animation ends (which leaves a still of my house at about 100m height) I added a very thin animated cloud layer, as if you were looking at a live picture. Works great! Thanks Andrew...

A very cool tutorial. I like it reversed and when the animation ends (which leaves a still of my house at about 100m height) I added a very thin animated cloud layer, as if you were looking at a live picture. Works great! Thanks Andrew...

you're the man, mr kramer.

great tutorial, like all the others and of course, you're comments are unbeatable...

dude you're great!

People asking about maps can also try http://flashearth.com
has several map sites it pulls its images from and you can right click and hide the menus for almost a full screen view. Only thing is the logo and text that is left on the bottom left corner.

very good!

Magnifico tutorial.Thanks from spain.

I Just finihed the basic training and i must say Wow really good explaint and funny. Thanks allot!
I am already excited of all the other tutorials
I mite try this next
Thanks again.

Thanks you the best.Very Very nice tutorial

andrew kramar you are the man !!!!! thank you so much for these tutorials....

Hi Andrew, great tutorial again :D
people if you want to reverse the earth zoom, so zoom in on earth i think you just have start with scale at 0.005% and end with 100% insted of starting with 100% and ending with 0.005%. I'm not sure if it works.
i didnt try this because i had some problems with my pictures and im also an ae noob, but this seems quite logical to me xD oh and dont be mad if it doesnt work ;p
bye ppl

Hi Andrew, Thanks so much for the wonderful tutorials. I'm looking forward to go through all of them, and some of the products as well.

I saw this question repeating itself on this page but not sure what is the definite answer.

Where are the images taken from? It doesn't look like google earth. Especielly the picture of the full globe. where can I find this one? (i live in europe)


Thanks, Tal

Me again
I have just finished my try at the zoom,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwdOIXCVijM

Nice one, i am gonna try to do it as well

Oh since evryone is asking about where to get the maps from, its quite simple. just download google earth and turn of everything (there is some stuff in the left of the screen you can uncheck the boxes and evrything is gone Only problem is you cant use the whole picture, you need to use everything in the middle otherwise the stupid compass shows up.

Great tutorials by the way andrew, i love em! keep up the good work!

THIS IS VERY GOOD TUTOTRIAL.I M FROM PAKISTAN AND VFIRST TIME VISIT THIS SITE IT NICE SITE, GOOD TUTORIAL AND BEST INSTRUCTOR. THANKS

You really just blow me away every tutorial I watch. I laughed so hard when you were talking about the weather balloon. A thousand thanks.

Thanx a lot :)

You are going to make me crazy good man very good

Fuc~#@ great!!!!! master master // 10 point

Hey nice tutorial! just like all the rest!
Any body know how to get the earth/city images rathe than using google earth?

thanks

Iam korean

i cant speaking is very well

always thank you^^!!

you work is amazin and your tutorials are very easy to understand
thanks for the legacy!!

it's reelly fantastic that's what i am looking for

lol andrew tried the camera tied to the weather balloon didnt work so well people thought it was a ufo and so the air force shot it down and sent me the bill for the missle :) love your work bro i wish i could learn more

at your every best greets from Romania !!! love your tutorials

Ótimo tutorial, como sempre!!!!!

Same question as Steven: I have the Designer Sound FX discs... was wondering what swoosh sounds you used for this? I found a couple that might work well - but probably need to be stretched out or pieced together to match the length of the piece.

Thanks for this - absolutely superb!

wow... this one great!! I love it!!

For all the people who are asking about maps

Simple download Nasa World Wind. No watermarks. It's free and the images are in the public domain

The images are also just as high qualitly as andrews

Hope this helps!

this is the..........;;;;;'; ; nooooooooo ..............................................................super' ...................................

this is the most epic effect ive ever seen. like OMG WOW.

insane.

i heart you andrew

Wow, this is the first time i've used after effects in my life, and mine looks just as cool as in the tutorial. great work! thnx!

I have the Designer Sound FX discs... was wondering what swoosh sounds you used for this? I found a couple that might work well - but probably need to be stretched out or pieced together to match the length of the piece.

I was trying to do this tutorial but when I tried to down load the project it would tell me that the file is corrupted.
I was really looking foward to doing this project.

This looks very similar to your own technique but zooming in fast towards the planet for the new Will Smith movie "HANCOCK".

Looks funny!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/hancock/hd/

So good so good I time reverse and add a particular like a comet...

Is there a way to do this without expedential zoom? I have After Effects 5.5. Can you do this effect in after effects 6.5?

you the best, very good!!!!

thats awesome!! where did you get those hires images if you dont mind me asking. im in miami by the way.

Hey,
When I saw the "Powers of Ten" it reminded me of this tutorial.
You can check out the old school earth zoom here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZpA28eUB7Ek

Enjoy

Hi Andrew

Very nice tutorial. It helpt me allot.
You are the man.
Keep it up

Shido

Very Nice tutorial, keep´on´movin man!
GR8 JOB!

excelent tutorial...

Hey Andrew,
amazing verrrrrrrrrry nice.
Well i have a little question: did you copy this one cause i saw exactly this zoom being used at a german - french channel called "Arte". It was really exaktly "your" zoom. So your tutorials are really intresting ;D keep on doing such great work
greetz from germany

where do you get those satellite photos? Those I got from google maps seems to have less quality

Hey guys! the images: from google maps (not google earth!!!). if you look close you'll see some google watermarks in that Footage. some watermarks seem to be hardly erased with Photoshop and the water of the sea is also tuned-up with PS. just the 2 last images of andrew's Footage seem to be from other sources. that's it!
Thx Google and of course Thx Andrew!!!

Super man, I was just wondering where I can get Images of my city, hopefully you can help , thanx again.....

Thanks for the lessons,
they are brilliant
I appeciate what I have learned from you...
you are a cool person
R E S P E C T B R U V....

I would really like to know how to get this one into a night-scene and maps.

I really do not know howto fix that. Is it possible to play with the contrast and else to get it like a night-shot?

Hope you guys can help me out

Thanks for tutorial Andrew

thanks andrew

be cool guys i see a lot of where to find the images of you're place well the answer is goolge maps but here's the thing you hold Control + ALT and press Print Screen and that will copy the the srceen, then you just Crop out what you want using adobe photoshop....

Ive watched all ur tutorials and its really helped me with AE thanks mate keep up the gd work

p.s where u get the images from??

Well done, you are an example man...

"xix" in albanian means - cool...

I HAVE SEEN THIS IN MOVIES AND ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW HOW THEY DID IT

I love all ur tutorials. Ur an inspiration.... Where are those maps from ??? Google Earth ??? I realy like some maps of MY city

Wow it's great and it works fantastic. thanks andrew

Hey Andrew, I got to admit that all of your Tutorials helped me a lot in motion Graphics, It even helped me to find a good job, Actually, As Everybody is asking, where have you found those picture, Because I'll say likes some up there and I think that these are not Google Earth and/or Google Map images..

thx for the hint !

great fan

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Thanks.

For some reason, this tutorial doesn't fully load for me.

Instead of using motion title I just scaled the precomposed to 106%. This way the edges are more detailed

my result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypJIDN2S3-M

Where do you get the high res pics that are legal to use? The thing I don't like about google earth is that a lot of times the water near land is very boxy because the water is different colors.

Where do you get the high res pics that are legal to use? The thing I don't like about google earth is that a lot of times the water near land is very boxy because the water is different colors.

Yhanks again for a great idea Andrew, but sorry, this one hasn't been fully thought through. If you use a reasonable number of layers, each one parenting the previous, the scale range becomes, excuse the pun, astronomical. I used 16 hi-res images form Google Earth (Yes, they are good if you buy the pro version) - but when you come to clear down all the parents and point to the original, most of the scaling has zeroed out and you are left with a dot.

Any suggestions to this one? I am working on using an expression, but it's a bit tricky. If I figure it out, I'll post again.
Keep up the good work, and Happy New Year to you all.
Rob

Thanks a lot

Great tutorials.

How could an earth zoom be applied in the opposite way? What I mean is, how do you zoom from space down to a certain point?

i made a proffesional clip by using your tution.i recommended my frinds to watch your site.thank you.
it would be greatful to see recent tutions in your site.

Thank you Andrew very much for your tutorial. I am a very big fan of your work and your one of the reason why I am focusing more on having a career in motion graphics.

Hey Andrew Look here :

http://movies.virginmedia.com/player/default.asp?url=/film/fid4864/trailers/trid3245/wm/bb.asx&filmid=4864&trid=3245&partner=virgin&sec=trl&psec=

2 mins 5 seconds in video clip they have used your tutorial or it looks very similar.

Andrew!
Awesome tutorials.I also love your sense of humor!
You make those complicated and wonderful tricks look amazingly easy.. And u know what..Like everybody else said, i will just say:You are a Genius!
1000 thanks is just not enaf!!

Andrew Kranmer is and editing god, he is pure pwnage

Wondering where you got those cool satellite images ???

Sick tutorial, like usual

I was wondering where you got the satellite pics from without the copyright lettering on it. Great tutorial

hi thanks to this tut i think i understand

>-( whats up i just cant render the earth zoom i very slow and only with this project

Sweet video. Too bad it doesn't say where to get the photos. I don't want to use Google Earth, because I don't want to erase their watermark, which is there for a reason. Is there some legal source, like NASA? The tutorial is really of limited value unless you tell us where we can get similar high rez images.

ey thanks i make my animation like this one and i hope u can see the work of what u make watch it on youtube com/keught

check out the end of this trailer

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/jumper/

Thanks for these great tutorials man. They are realy helpful. Am looking forward to buy your DVD collections.

Hahaha. My kid heard what you said you need in beginning of the tutorial and he was like, "dad, have we got enough string." Cute hahaha.

Thanks Andrew. Your tutorials awesome!

I LIKE this very much
it is really cool!!

just perfect i love your work!!

The Earth Zoom can be seen in the new movie 'Jumper'. Check out the end of the trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/jumper/large.html

Looks almost identical...

Hey I read the questions but didn't see an answer...Where'd you gwet the photos?

Hi, I was just wondering on how to get high-res images from your own country/neighbourhood .. now I know there's Earth Google, but you can never get them from there as high-res I think.

Where did you get the pictures from ?

Hey wow great video thanks

Where did you get the good res images from. google earth standard ones look out of focus.

thanks again

lol

Muito Foda, realmente o melhor site de tutoriais sobre after effects que encontrei! Parabéns mesmo! Continuem fazendo esse maravilhoso serviço! Abraços do Brasil!

(translating haha)

Rox a lot, actually the best site of tutorials for after effects that i find! Congratulations! Keep doing this great job! Hugs from Brazil!

Definitely awsome!
Thax from Brazil!
Kisses

Hi dude you are so awesome ! I watched almost every of your tutorials and it really helped me . I'm a beginner in Special/Visual Effects and your tutorial are very important to me so good job and if oyu wanna see some of my effects go on youtube and check my profile http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=klb2000000
Goodbye

It's 100% Google Earth.
I've searched the same house :D
And I've found it (looking similar!!)

The 2 - 3 Image could be Nasa World Wind..
Or Google Earth!

And the first one is just an Earth map from Google Image Search...

greez siousu

wow .... and one more times WOW !!
Great job.
Thanks for the tutorial :)

this is very - very good tutorial , thanks a lot

This is fantastic and exactly what we need. Where did you get the high rez images? Doesn't look like it was from Google Earth like eveybody else is saying. Also, is there any licensing issues?

My first project i ever made with After Effects. I think its pretty hard, but thanks to this tut i think i understand

andrew~
you are so funny~ ^0^;;;
Thank you so much for your tutorials!!!

ak the super man

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/jumper/lrg.html

That movie, I believe, used this technique towards the end of the trailer.

very goog tutorial. thanks

Eres lo mejoor

@arek and neo:
the pics are from google; you can see the watermark on them.

btw, awesome tutorial (as usual), andrew. you are awesome!

Thanks,
very - very good tutorial
Thank U

this is a great tutorial , thanks a lot

Hey congrads.... my wishes for ur daughter... btw my birth date is 2nd of sept too...

Thanks for the tutorial, Andrew. The steps are great, but what I like the most is seeing you're work flow.

I figured out how to get it to zoom IN to earth. Took me a while, but then a brick hit me in the head...ouch...and it came to me.

Are you ready?

Select the Earth Zoom 2 comp. Right-click and select Time and then Time-Reverse Layer! Instant reversal, that's easy to undo when you need to go the other way.
Here is my version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikts2-As3Ac

Thanks again Andrew - for the tutorials, and helping me learn to "think" in AE.

Now where'd that brick go...

Thanks for the tutorial, Andrew. The steps are great, but what I like the most is seeing you're work flow.

I figured out how to get it to zoom IN to earth. Took me a while, but then a brick hit me in the head...ouch...and it came to me.

Are you ready?

Select the Earth Zoom 2 comp. Right-click and select Time and then Time-Reverse Layer! Instant reversal, that's easy to undo when you need to go the other way.
Here is my version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikts2-As3Ac

Thanks again Andrew - for the tutorials, and helping me learn to "think" in AE.

Now where'd that brick go...

I am really impressed with your work and with the speed you do your work. Just wanted to show my appreciation, keep it up. As far, the best tutorial-making-guy for after effects I've seen so far.

Easy to follow what you are doing but never slow. And always ending up with a superb result. Tried this earthzoom, took me an hour instead of your fiftheen minutes.

Keep up the good work and always interesting tutorials!

very good tutorial !! watch my movie http://www.magichousestudio.net/mhs_video/wip/earthzoom.avi

thx for the video ++

what a great effect!
I am going to work on it with my new film.

hey I dont know how yo get the maps offline, if you could help me out that would be awesome.

I liked it! it was good, my internet connection isn't very fast so i don't watch many but these products are expensive. why are they so expensive? I just got Action movie essentials for 60$ 60:too much. i know its stuff the pros use, but what about regular people? TOO Much

Hey!
they actually made a earth zoom in swedish television after your Tutorial on channel 4+ here in sweden. thats cool!
Andrew, you are becoming an international star :D

Hi,

For this image from Google Earth, i should just to set the zoom level or other thing? How can to it?

Thanks

This tutorial could not have come at a better time. I am actually working on a project which is exactly the effect I was looking for. Your tutorial is awsome, well explaned, concise and very easy to follow. Thank you for your help. One question though, where can I find these high resolution pictures of areas? Thanks again for your response

Thanks! Does anyone know how to reverse the frames so it looks like you're zooming in instead of zooming out?

The google earth screens makes the earth looks like it has patches. Those are some clean pictures, was another program used?

Thanks for all your job Andrew, easy and clear, keep moving forward, thanks from Spain Andrew.

Tkx andrew for the oportunites

I tried it with the ballon with a camera and the fishingline! Did somebody found a camera with an ballon - I'm still looking for it!

Nice tutorial!

This turned out to be so simple... I'd spend hours on making something like this. Andrew you have an awesome piece of talent! Keep up! Your fan from Russia!

sei veramente forte!!

very nice tutorial

esta bn brutal

GageFX yeaa i just came here to say that too, but beat me to it lol..

Wow, very cool tutorial. Very clear to understand, cheers from Brazil.

wow bro... you really got some tallent. Very good.... Keep it up

the jumper trailer has this in it... did you make that Andrew?

Looks like Doug Liman (Go, Swingers) is a fan of Andrew's or at least the post house on JUMPER is.

http://www.jumperthemovie.com/

You have to wait until the end of the trailer, but it's there.

-GFX

You save my life! :)
Thank´s for your big help.

That was great! Always wanted to know how it was done without killing yourself much. Thank's Andrew. You rock!

you work is amazin and your tutorials are very easy to understand (clean great explanation)
wish you the best men!!
thanks for the legacy!!

thats a goood tutorial but i m having a problem .I dont have a better creative mind than other so please tell me what can i do to made my mind creative.Plz tell me

Where do you get the maps they are very cool and the Tut!!!

it's very good effect
plz, give me this effect free

Good job!

If you need to get some decent photos, try Google Earth, you can remove all the road icons etc from the bottom left and you can save a picture. Sure you get the watermark but you simply use a feathering system on each photo like Andrew does and you solve the issue of the watermark. If you use the earth pic, just mask the bottom corner out. Simple 8P Enjoy!

i love this tutorial,thanks andrew,u are such an inspiration

It is alive

ty Master great tutorial
This is my try.
http://www.vbox7.com/play:cef12844

This will be introduction of my advertising of my firm

Thank u again

P.S. Sorry for the poor english

Andrew just gotta say these tutorials are the best ever.

ive been using Macs since 1987 for print design and got into corporate film work 7 years ago and always shyed away from AE due to its complexity (so i though).

As i have CS3 suite I thought id have a go instead of using Apple Motion... wow... your tutorials have made me learn the basics of AE in 1 week. im now watching your tutorials and applying them to my projects and wowwing my clients.

The best AE learning site on the web, its just like having a teacher sitting here in my studio in Scotland, thanks again.

you are a supertutorial master! i jus simply love your work dude!!

maps.google.com

hey man awesome tutorial. where did you get the maps from?

Thank yu for your work! It's excellent!!!

Combining creativity, humor, and teaching is a rare gift.
U've embellished both by serving as an inspiration to others.
I commend u.

Hey what's up !!! Djizz from guadeloupe ( French west indies) !!! Very good tutorial!! nice job Andrew !!! But this question is : Where can we find HD pictures like yours ??? have a good day man !!

Andrew you rock!!!!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Kool worx bro..Much respect for wat yo doing?Haven`t gut Aefx 7 yet still running on 6.5 but feel yo vibe..
Ak47..Uganda-E.Africa

a gr8 tutorial, but where can i get pictures of a city without the google earth watermark >-(

Hello everybody !

sorry for my english, 'cause i'm french...
this tutorial is wonderfull !!! i'st what i'm looking for since a long time !
my problem today is how can i do to find pictures of my place. i think about google maps, of course, but there is a lot of icons on the picture...
is there someone who can help me please ?
write to me : thebesteditor@caramail.com

thanks a lot !
Mick

Hey guys, I really really need some help. This is a great tutorial Andrew, but where do I find still for my city? Thanks alot,
Brad

Had some problems as well. After a lot of fiddling around, I discovered that the numbers behind the dot are probably so small, that my after effects rounded it of to zero. By adjusting the scaling the lowest layer up first, then unparenting and reparenting, it was solved.
BTW, an extra nice effect I discovered: put your audio files in the nested comp, that way the swoosh winds up and down gradually by the time remap effect.

Cheers Andrew,your tutorials are the coolest!

George, can you just record somebody on green screen from the position u want, and hten put em on there.

Sorry for my bad english, I´m a german guy!

I made 14 Screenshots from Google Maps. It is great, every Zoom step is exactly 50% resize in After Effects.

This was one of my favorites, so it's no surprise I watched it several times-

did you know this was used at the end of the newest AT&T commercial? it didn't look too great, though. Andrew's is WAY better. lol (i'm serious. )

Legal!!!!!!
meu, muito fera mesmo, você me passou uma nova gama de conehcimento com esse tutorial
vocês são os cara!!! rsrsrs

Love the tutorials. Congrats on the new addition.
Also curious where one would find photos of this high a resolution?
Also, what would be the procedure of reversing the effect where you come from space and zoom into a street... but then, add in a motion shot of a person looking up, as if to start a story of such a person? Which is what I'm now wanting to do. I'm sure I've actually seen this somewhere actually?

Florian that was pretty nice, u should work on the color correction when it zooms out to the globe though.

where did u get those maps from?

buenisimo el tuto...

Hey,

I love A.K. tutorials ;)

whatch my Earth Zoom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt4TZ10Z5fI

Thanks, you're the responsable for me love After Effects. thanks for the lesons.

Andrew u ROCK men! and this tutorial 2
congrats about the kid :)

cheers from argentina!

Where are those maps from ??? Google Earth ??? I realy like some maps of MY city

where do you find those maps from?

This is one of the coolest Video Tutorial Effects!...Your Teaching style is Great!..keep them coming.

i love u andrew and ur work

wow!!! great tutorial~~~ thx~~^^

Yeah, but i don't know why, mine doens't work... >-(

Nice tutorial!! Like all the other!!!! From #1 to #47!!!

Thank you Andrew